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Product details

  • Audio CD (27 Oct 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • ASIN: B0000DG7B3
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 60,240 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. The Heavy 3:55£0.79
Listen  2. 3 Way Accumulator 3:48£0.79
Listen  3. Beastmaster 3:55£0.79
Listen  4. Billy Jack 4:31£0.79
Listen  5. Rod Of Iron 3:41£0.79
Listen  6. Tuff It Out 3:33£0.79
Listen  7. Sexualized 3:39£0.79
Listen  8. Muscle Music 3:03£0.79
Listen  9. B-Real 4:13£0.79
Listen10. Previous 2:46£0.79
Listen11. Battered 3:53£0.79
Listen12. Mary 4:42£0.79

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Everyone needs a break sometime, and on A Heavy Night with Relaxed Muscle, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker takes a sabbatical from wry social commentary, instead inventing for himself a new character, Darren Spooner, a Doncaster thug with a fine line in macho posturing. But this is not ironic Darkness-style cock-rock. Backed for the most part by an urgent techno blues reminiscent of Suicide, Cocker/Spooner rejoices in violent nights out and racetrack innuendos, casting himself as a literate but bullying brute. It's fun, in a rough-house kind of way--the "Smash It Up"-recalling "Tuff It Out" is especially raucous--but there's something unpleasantly visceral about it all, there's a nasty whiff of reality. Clearly Cocker senses this, too, because he doesn't keep up the act for long. Frantic 1970s rocker "Sexualised" sees him reveal a painful impotence, the mournful "Battered" bemoans an ongoing decimation of mind and body, while the closing "Mary", which places a pretty synth-line over a "Lola"-like acoustic guitar, is a fraught look at a life gone entirely to pot. It's a magnificent track with Cocker exhibiting a deep understanding of and sympathy for the grotesque but tortured Spooner, and thus making sense of an album that's essentially Saturday night and Sunday morning revved up in extremis and set to music. --Dominic Wills

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Brilliant!!!, 5 Nov 2003
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Didn't expect much from the Relaxed Muscle Full-length. I certainly never thought it could be so good!

Yeah, it's brilliant. You might have heard some of the older singles, but they won't prepare you for how good some of the new songs are. Alright, there are maybe 3 throw-away tracks, which is to be expected of any full-length in this modern age, but the rest of the songs on the album are an arse-kicking good time. "Tuff It Out" is the best indie-tronic dance thrash trash since New Order started developing wrinkles. "Mary" is a comic grunge rock piss-take. "Muscle Music", "Sexualized" and "B-Real" will satisfy anyone that loved Electric Six's "Danger High Voltage", but felt disappointed by the rest of E6's album.

It's good. Really. Honestly.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius, 20 April 2004
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Think Pulp meets Nine Inch Nails and you almost have Relaxed Muscle summed up.An amazing album and not a bad song on it. Billy Jack is pure genius. Cant wait wait for the follow up.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Relaxed Muscle - A Musical Revolution, 1 Nov 2003
By Greg! (Lincoln, UK.) - See all my reviews
I've been waiting for ages (well since April) for Relaxed Muscle to release their debut album and I'm not disapointed! All the songs on here are brilliant. It's like nothing you've ever heard before and it's glorious! Go on, give your ears a treat and indulge in the Relaxed Muscle!
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2.0 out of 5 stars bad pop
It seems sad that the career of popster Jarvis Cocker has culimated in this predectable garish set of songs. Read more
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